2022 Edition. Pirate Guide to Collecting Australian Coins Paperback

This book lists all Australian decimal coins currently in circulation, including the coloured $2 coins released by Woolworths as well as the dinosaur and alphabet coins from Australia Post.

Features in the Pirate Guide:

The Pirate Guide to Collecting Australian Coins is a 120-page full colour paperback book.

There are large, high quality images of the actual coins, so you can see exactly what to look for, plus mintages so you know which coins are rarest.

This book covers every Australian coin released into circulation by the Royal Australian Mint in the following denominations from 1966 to the end of 2022, with a chapter for each coin:

• 1 & 2 Cent
• 5 Cent
• 10 Cent
• 20 Cent
• 50 Cent
• 1 Dollar
• 2 Dollars

Each chapter has:

• High quality photos of every coin design in circulation since 1966
• Latest mintage (rarity) for each coin (where it has been revealed), updated at the end of 2022
  
• Scoreboards comparing the mintages for the coins with special designs
• Valuable Errors and Varieties unique to each coin, including how to spot them!

The Two Dollar chapter also includes details of the following special releases from Woolworths (with photos and mintage details):

• 2016 Olympics $2 set
• 2017 Possum Magic $2 set
• 2018 Commonwealth Games $2 set
• 2019 Mr Squiggle $2 set
• 2019 Wallabies coin
• 2020 Women’s Cricket coin
• 2020/21 Olympics $2 set
• 2021 Wiggles $2 set
• 2022 Commonwealth Games A/U/S $2 set
• 2022 Socceroos coin

The One Dollar chapter includes the Australia Post Alphabet series from 2019, 2021 and 2022, with photos and mintage details of all 26 coins from these sets. It also includes the Dinosaur series from 2022.

Valuable error coins to look for:
There is a section on the errors and variations unique to each coin, such as the Mule Error from the 2000 dollar, and the valuable Bullseye error and many others plus how to identify these errors.

Updates in the 2022 edition:

• All of the new coins put into circulation in 2022
• Updated mintages from the RAM report - some of which are dramatically different
• A new chapter for 1 and 2 Cent coins (by popular request)
• New info on how to get the most from the book
• Scoreboards to easily identify lower mintage coins
• New details on errors (and how to verify them)
• Plus a few extra surprises